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Selma Ala. Sunday evening Feb 8th 1863
My Dearest Loulie;
I avail myself of the first spare hour to scribble a little for your gratification. I had to be in a great hurry on Tuesday morning to get to town and have my trunk at the depot in time for the train. Charlie can tell you how cold it was going to town against that cutting north wind. We got to Artesia at 11 oclock and had to wait, out in the cold, till nearly three for the other train. Arrived at Meridian at 9 in the night, and had the privilege of staying in a house the remainder of the night. Wrapped the old coverlet round me and took a little nap across some chairs, while about half the men stayed around fires in the woods. Et a tolerable breakfast and drank two large cupfulls of genuine coffee. Took the cars again at about 8 oclock, and after about seven hours run on the worst road that cars ever passed over, arrived at a point on the Tombigbee, five miles below Demopolis, to which place we went on a little 1 horse steamboat. From Demopolis to this place we had good road, but here the depot is 1 mile from the hotels, and we had to stand out in the mud and a bitter cold rain for two hours from 10 to 12 in the night. Again, the old coverlet did good service. Spent the day Thursday, looking round, and hunting

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Selma Ala. Sunday evening Feb 8th 1863
My Dearest Loulie;
I avail myself of the first spare hour to scribble a little for your gratification. I had to be in a great hurry on Tuesday morning to get to town and have my trunk at the depot in time for the train. Charlie can tell you how cold it was going to town against that cutting north wind. We got to Artesia at 11 oclock and had to wait, out in the cold, till nearly three for the other train. Arrived at Meridian at 9 in the night, and had the privilege of staying in a house the remainder of the night. Wrapped the old coverlet round me and took a little nap across some chairs, while about half the men stayed around fires in the woods. Et a tolerable breakfast and drank two large cupfulls of genuine coffee. Took the cars again at about 8 oclock, and after about seven hours run on the worst road that cars ever passed over, arrived at a point on the Tombigbee, five miles below Demopolis, to which place we went on a little 1 horse steamboat. From Demopolis to this place we had good road, but here the depot is 1 mile from the hotels, and we had to stand out in the mud and a bitter cold rain for two hours from 10 to 12 in the night. Again, the old coverlet did good service. Spent the day Thursday, looking round, and hunting